Range



Feb. 26, 1929.

E. KARR RANGE Filed Jan. 9, 1928 Patented Feb. 26, 1929.

UNITED STATES EDWARD KARE, or BELLEVILLE, rumors.

RANGE.

Application filed January 9, 1925. Serial No. 245,321.

The object of my device is to make a range for the burning of coal orwood or gas or combination coal and gas.

A further object is to devise a range of the character describedprovided with a radiating surface for heating the room in which therange is positioned. A still further object is to devise a range havinga radiating surface at one end and having a circulation system whichprovides for efficiently heating said radiating surface with products ofcombustion that are usually lost in the conventional range. Among myobjects is to provide a range having an efficient circulation system andto provide one that is made of few and simple parts that lend themselvesreadily to multiple production and that may be' easily and cheaply made.

With these and other objects in view, my invention has relation tocertain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter more fully de-' scribed, illustrated in the drawing andpointed out in the claim.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a range made in accordance with mydisclosure.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of said range.

Fig. 8 is a transverse fragmental sectional elevation on the line 3-3 ofFig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a cross sectional elevation on the line 44 of Fig.3 with the heating surface removed.

In the drawing a combination gas and coal range is shown. Thecirculation system for the gas portion of the range is not illustratedand may be of any conventional form. Numeral 5 designates the rangegenerally having the ash box 6 and the fire box 7. A conventional gratenot shown may be used. Numeral 8 designates the conventional side wallhaving the opening 9 formed therein near the top and centrallypositioned. Numeral 10 designates a flue wall positioned on the left endof the range and secured thereto at the bottom by the offset 11 and tothe upper surface of the range proper at 12. The securing means may beof the conventional type. The flue wall 10 flares upwardly from thecentral portion forming the sloping panel 13.

-wardly to the bottom of said flue.

The path of the products of combustion is shown by the arrows indicatedin all the figures. These products of combustion pass upwardly from thefire box 7 through the opening 9 into the flue formed between the sidewall 8 and the flue wall 10 and thence down- On account of the slopingpanel 13 the cross sectional area of the flue formed between the sidewall 8 and the flue wall 10 is largest at the top and tapers downwardlyto the central portion. This enables the products of combustion toexpand in the largest area near the top, which expansion promotes thecirculation of the products of combustion. The sloping panel 13-togetherwith the remainder of the flue Wall '10 form the radiating surface thatfunctions to heat the room in which the range is positioned. Numeral 14designates the conventional flue positioned centrally with respect tothe coal portion of the range and in the rear of the range. Near thebottom of the rear wall of the range is formed the opening 15 connectingthe flue between the side wall 8 and the flue wall 10 with the rear flue16 which is in fluid communication with the flue 14. The products ofcombustion having arrived at the bottom of the flue between the sidewall 8 and the flue wall 10 pass through the opening 15 into the rearflue 16 and thence into the flue 14 from which they are finallydispelled into the atmosphere.

What I claim and mean to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination with a range having a flue formed between its side walland an external side flue wall, the upper portion of said external fluewall protruding laterally and tapering downwardly from the top and meansfor circulating the products of combustion between the side wall and theexternal flue wall downwardly and then rearwardly to the flue of saidrange.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD KARR.

